Municipal Pavement Management
PAVER Told You What’s Wrong.
InfraMind Tells You What to Do.
The PCI standard PAVER created changed the industry. Now it’s time for the next step: turning condition data into optimized investment plans.
PAVER earned its place. Developed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1980s, it gave cities and airports a standard way to measure pavement condition. The PCI scale it pioneered is still the foundation of every pavement management program in the country. Over 400 agencies rely on it today.
But knowing your PCI scores and knowing what to do about them are two different problems. PAVER can tell you which streets are in bad shape. What it can’t do is figure out the best way to allocate your limited budget across every street in your network — accounting for deterioration rates, treatment timing, funding constraints, and service level targets — to get the most possible value from every dollar. That’s the problem InfraMind solves.
Squeeze 30% More From the Same Budget
Optimization-based planning extracts significantly more value from the same pavement budget compared to worst-first or manual prioritization.
~30%
more value from the same budget
Source: Harris & Associates
InfraMind doesn’t ask you to pick which streets to fix. It evaluates every possible combination and shows you the plan that keeps the most pavement in the best condition for the money you actually have. For a city spending $3M a year on streets, that’s like getting $900K in free road work.
PAVER lets you run budget scenarios — “what if we spend $2M? $3M? $5M?” — but you choose the projects manually. InfraMind finds the mathematically best set of projects automatically.
Model Real Problems, Not Textbook Scenarios
Real street management isn’t one budget number. It’s: “$2.5M from the general fund plus $800K from the state that can only be used on arterials, council wants Elm Street done before the election, can’t do two adjacent streets in the same year, and need average PCI above 65.”
InfraMind handles all constraints at once — budget limits by funding source, political priorities, geographic sequencing, service level floors, intervention frequency limits.
Multiple funding sources. Multiple constraints. One optimal plan.
PAVER’s scenario analysis tests one assumption at a time. It can’t model the layered complexity of how cities actually make pavement decisions.
Built for How You Work Today
- Cloud platform — no desktop installation, no Windows dependency. Open in a browser from desk, field, or council chambers.
- AI-assisted data import: bring existing PAVER database, consultant spreadsheets, or GIS exports.
- Interactive maps with every street section color-coded by condition.
- Council-ready outputs: side-by-side budget scenarios showing elected officials exactly what streets look like in 5, 10, 20 years at different funding levels.
PAVER is a Windows desktop application. No cloud access, no real-time collaboration, no mobile capability. Its reporting requires export-and-reassemble workflows.
Results Comparison
What This Means For Your Streets
1
Condition data locked in a desktop database on one computer
2
You choose which streets to fix based on experience and complaints
3
Budget scenarios tested one at a time — “what if we spend $X?”
4
Council gets a PCI number they don’t understand
5
Consultant delivers data every 3–5 years; you manage in between with spreadsheets
6
Reporting requires exporting to Excel, then rebuilding in PowerPoint
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All data in the cloud, accessible from anywhere by your whole team
2
The optimizer finds the allocation that delivers the best network outcome
3
Thousands of allocations evaluated in minutes, best plan delivered automatically
4
Council sees side-by-side visuals of what their streets look like at three budget levels
5
Continuous planning platform that stays current between consultant visits
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Presentation-ready reports generated directly from the platform
The Numbers That Matter
$6–$14
saved in future costs for every $1 of timely prevention
Source: AASHTO
~30%
more value from your budget with optimization vs. worst-first
Source: Harris & Associates
60%+
of small cities have no formal pavement management tool
Source: Industry estimates, NCHRP
InfraMind doesn’t replace your engineering consultant or your PAVER data. It builds on that foundation — importing your existing condition data and adding the optimization layer that turns good data into the best possible plan. Your consultant’s field expertise plus InfraMind’s analytical engine equals better outcomes than either delivers alone.
See what optimization means for your streets
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